Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Highest Paid Oscar Nominee Is Jennifer Lawrence

Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon has been beaten by actress Jennifer Lawrence to top a new rich list of Oscar nominees.

The 25-year-old, who is up for the Best Actress honor at Sunday’s 88th
Academy Awards for her work on biographical movie Joy, earned more than
any other 2016 hopeful on the new Forbes magazine countdown.
Jennifer took an estimated $52 million, pre-tax, between June, 2014 and
June, 2015, giving her the salary edge over DiCaprio and Damon, who are
both nominated in the Best Actor category for their roles in The
Revenant and The Martian, respectively.
Leonardo, 41, raked in $29 million , while Matt earned $25 million
during the same period. The three stars were the only nominees to make
the magazine’s list of highest paid actors.
The list, published on Wednesday, comes just months after The Hunger
Games star Jennifer attacked Hollywood studio bosses for paying female
stars considerably less than men. That fact became apparent during the
2014 Sony database hack, when cyber terrorists released confidential
information, including the salaries of stars. Lawrence discovered she
was paid significantly less than her male co-stars in American Hustle.
“When the Sony hack happened and I found out how much less I was being
paid than the lucky people with d**ks, I didn’t get mad at Sony. I got
mad at myself,” she wrote in an essay for friend Lena Dunham’s Lenny
Letter newsletter. “I failed as a negotiator because I gave up early. I
didn’t want to keep fighting over millions of dollars that, frankly, due
to two franchises, I don’t need.”

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Jennifer, who previously won a Best Actress Oscar for her role in Silver
Linings Playbook in 2012, will be up against Cate Blanchett, Charlotte
Rampling, Saoirse Ronan and Brie Larson at the Academy Awards on Sunday.